The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-20

leave me. It was a vision SO rare and holy that
but few are ever favored with it, and none more
than once in a lifetime girl of eighteen or
nineteen years. in all the splendor OF per
feet womanhood when it is first full,
complete and ripe, was bathing in
the pool There was enough Hindu
blood in her to accord to her that matchless
grace of outline which is never the lot of any
European woman, but some European blood
Observation-Disclosures. / thought.
For half an hour she gamboled in the pool
and then, throwing her loose garments on care
lessly, and with the most perfect air of uncou-
seriousness I ever knew, she walked slowly away.
Following closely in her wake. found out her
home; it was with English family which was
said to have several times i1termarried with
high caste Hindoos. Obtaining an introduction
to them was easy enough, and found that the
beautiful girl who had so euraptured me had as
many graces of mind as she had of person.
AS often as possible, was with her, and soon
we became almost inseparable companions. l
was madiy in love with her. almost from the
first, and took no pains to conceal it. Her fami-
ly seemed deeply gratifed by my attentions. and
she, herself, was far from Indifferent Every
night she used to figure in my dreams, and one
night, with her, the Ferahki parchments we're
hopelessly confused The dream ended by the
sudden appearance of old Farahki, himself, who
took the girls hand, placed it in mine, and then
vanished.
The next morning Ferahki and the girl filed
about equal shares in my thoughts. It was the
llFSb TINE DdO given ultu tuOuSuL LOT Wccks.
That evening, in some way, scarcely know
how. the conversation turned upon Sanskrit
writings, and the girl said that she had some
rare specimens which she would show me If
was interested. begged her to do SO, and she
Immediately brought me several ancient parch-
ments, all of which had some bearing upon her
family, or the Hindoo part of it.
examine them with degree of Indifference
which did not bear me out in the interest had
evinced. and she was somewhat disappointed,
when all at once my attention was riveted upon
one bit of parchment, which fascinated me as a
snake charmer fascinates q snake. 1t was done
| in that peculiarly graceful form of Sanskrit
characters which had won so much comment for
the parchments had found in the vase, in the
rock niche. way up in the Himelayas.
'FerahKii" exclaimed
eyes, Ferahki," she assented s'but what dc
| you know of him2'
| the whole story. She was very much agitated
| and expressed the strangest desire to see the
| vase and its remarkable contents. l went and
| got it at once, and was intensely surprised te
note the trembling of her hands as she examined
| the ancient relics.
Now read this" she said handing me her owe
| bit of the Ferahki parchment
| 1t was a letter to his wife. It told her OF the
man ard woman whose souls had undergone
| Transportation through his intervention with the
| occult powers And it also informed her thai
| the gold which accompanied the letter was thai
which he mad received for doing this forbidden
| deed. There was also in it an intimation tina
| some awful punishment might befall him fol
| breaking this foremost of all laws.
SIS it not q confederation of your parchments!
| she demanded when had done reading docs
| not the one sustain and support the otherT
Eyes" I said. ''but how came you by thisf"
| cit has been handed down to US. from genera
| tion to generation, ever since Ferahkis day
The family has never once lost sight of it in al
| these thousand years since then"
"And you are of his family2" asked.
| "He was my ancestor" she answered proudly
| She has now been my wife for twenty years
! and, as look upon our children-hers and min,
| Il often hope that some one of them may hav
| the hardihood TO brave the pers of that awfu
summit, and see if any trace Of their famous an
| cestor still exists in that prison cave.